We are looking for a motivated candidate to apply to a
competitive postdoctoral call ("Juan de la Cierva formación") from
the Spanish Government that fully funds a 2-yr postdoctoral contract to work
in in the Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab. The requirements of the candidate we are
looking for are the following:
* We are particularly interested in candidates with
expertise in any of the following areas: microbial ecology, network analysis,
macroecology, biogeochemistry/soil science, communtiy ecology, remote sensing,
ecological modelling, data science.
* The
candidate should hold a PhD awarded between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021.
* The
candidate should have a strong publication record, with articles in
journals included in the first quartile of the JCR database (At the
Maestre lab do not care about the journal impact factor nor the total number of
publications when hiring researchers but the panels/reviewers of this call do
and the call is highly competitive, so successful candidates are those with a
strong publication record in these journals).
* The
candidate should have a good knowledge of the use of the statistical software R
and be familiar with the analyses of multivariate, complex datasets.
* Previous
research stays and/or postdoctoral experience outside Spain (for Spanish
candidates) or a Phd from a non-Spanish university (for candidates from outside
Spain).
Please note that this is not a job offer, as the candidate will apply to a very competitive call. All the details of this call can be found here (in Spanish). If awarded, the person would work in a brand new, state-of-the-art building where the Multidisciplinary Institute for Environment Studies "Ramon Margalef” of the University of Alicante is located, and will have access to experimental. Alicante is very lively city by the beach with a high quality of life (and some of the best paella in the world!), and the University of Alicante has a beautiful campus.
The candidate is free to pursue his/her main research interests/projects (the contract comes with a small stipend for research expenses of 4800 €), but (if desired) will have also the possibility to work with data/the research team of the BIODESERT project, awarded to Fernando T. Maestre by the Consolidator Grant program of the European Research Council for the period January 2016- June 2022. Data from this project already available include a large database on ecosystem structural and functional attributes (including multiple ecosystem functions and diversity/composition data of vegetation a soil microbial communities) from a global survey collected in 326 drylands from around the world, which are suitable to work on multiple questions related to the interest of the candidates. Other interesting data available are those from ongoing mid-term (11-13 yrs) climate change experiments from different Spanish drylands (for examples of previous results from these experiments see here or here).
The Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab is a healthy, collaborative and people-centered workplace where the health, wellbeing and professional development of its members is a priority and harassment and discrimination (of any form) is not tolerated. More details about the lab phylosophy can be found here.
Interested candidates in applying to this call in the lab should send their updated CV and three references to Fernando T. Maestre before 15 January 2022. The selected applicant will be notified by 18th of January 2022, and will need to prepare all the materials requested by the call before the 3rd of February 2022. Please note that the official information is in Spanish (don´t blame me, blame the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for not translating this webpage).
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